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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

2015 QB Michael O'Connor from Ottawa, who I believe Michigan has interest in, also has offers from Miss St. MSU, and Vandy. Seeing alot more Canadians having NFL success with Akeem Hicks, Tyrone Crawford and Phillip Blake all drafted last year.

I thought you were joking, but you asked this twice. Pretty much every recruit is a risk. Whether it's because they live in the north, play basketball, baseball, run track, picked up the sport late, are coming off an injury or it's just the nature of transitioning from HS to high BCS level football. Alabama doesn't get everyone they want and they don't pile up top recruiting classes by ignoring talent and potential from outside their region. They also run through a lot more recruits than most schools by utilizing medical exemptions.

Jerald Robinson leaving and from the sounds of things a lb leaving due to a knee injury have opened up a few more slots. This is not the sec where you recruit 30 kids and cross your fingers or send a few packing when the scholarships aren't available. Some fans really are clueless. I doubt this post clears anything up for some but it was worth a shot.

If the staff was this unprepared for Lewan leaving we have bigger problems. EVERYONE projected Lewan as a 1st Round pick entering the year, so staff should have projected his departure long before now.

No I'm saying if they are taking a 6th OL commit because Lewan is leaving, than they should have known all along they would be taking that many. Turning away the talent they did early because "They were only taking 5 OL" should have factored in Lewan leaving from the start.

They did not, however, know the other attrition that would occur. They lost extra players and decided they could use another Olineman. What's the big deal? This class is sick. I guess some people just can't be pleased.

"Michigan Defense" is dominating everything, in every aspect of life. That's a rough definition.

So...Michigan should have taken a commit from a guy who could potentially not fit into the class if Lewan got injured or pulled a Jake Long and stayed for 2013?

I like Pocic about as much as any other offensive lineman in the country for 2013, but you can't just take commitments from 10 offensive linemen, 14 wide receivers, and 9 cornerbacks... At some point you have to draw the line.

Extra DBs, safeties, linebackers, RBs and WRs can play special teams. You can move extra defensive lineman to the offensive line. You can move DBs to safety, safeties to LB, etc.. Not much you can do with offensive linemen numbers 11 to whatever.

The recruiting, attrition from the RR years will be VERY apparent next year on the interior of our OL. We're going to have RS frosh all over the place....regardless of how talented we are, it may be rough sledding the first half of the year.

We only took four OL last class, not five, when we were very shorthanded. At the same time we took 5 DL. With 85 scholarships, I don't know what the ideal number is to allocate to o-line, but with so few proven players on the roster and so much playing time coming open, it seems prudent to aim a little higher now. While you mentioned not moving OL to other positions, you might have forgotten that with five OL spots they often move around more than other players.

Extra offensive linemen give you depth. What are the chances that all five or six of these class of 2013 offensive linemen will still be on the team in four or five years? A Lewan type might enter the draft. A Schifano type might quit. A Pace type might get injured. There's a pretty good chance that at least two of these guys will be gone by, say, 2015 or 2016.